Libertarians and China

I always knew R. W. Bradford was a sellout, and now his recent screed, "China: The 'Crisis' and the Facts," has confirmed my long-standing suspicion. But before we get to that, some background material might be helpful, starting with the essential question: Who the...

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Three Mavericks

Something's in the wind. From the rocky shores of the Sea of Japan to the sandy beaches of the Adriatic, a new and benevolent form of nationalism is on the rise: not the dark irredentism that infected prewar Germany and the comic-opera totalitarianism of Mussolini's...

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Why They Hate Us

America-haters the world over were ecstatic that the US was not reelected to the UN "Human Rights Commission." That great champion of human rights, Communist China, gleefully pontificated in their state-controlled media that "the U.S. election loss shows that...

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Vidal’s Non-Interventionist Manifesto

Justin has the flu so today we present a classic Raimondo column from last year. October 18, 2000I can write all the columns I want, pointing out this or that outrage committed by the US government in the realm of foreign affairs, railing about the hubris of the...

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Viva Berlusconi!

An international hate campaign against Italian rightist leader Silvio Berlusconi is now going into high gear. The goal: saving the Euro-communist ("center-left") government now in power, and derailing Berlusconi's hopes of becoming Prime Minister in the upcoming [May...

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The Spin Begins

The film had barely stopped rolling over at CBS before the Kerrey spin machine started cranking out apologias: "I think this war's not over," warbled Kerrey after the broadcast. "I think they're not going to leave us alone until we're all dead. It's always possible to...

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Getting Away with Murder?

Democrats defend him because he's one of them: Republicans defend him for ideological reasons; liberals like Robert Scheer give former Senator Bob Kerrey, accused war criminal, a pass, but use the occasion to condemn America as the epitome of human evil;...

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Uncensoring ‘Project Censored’

What follows is the text of a talk I gave at a conference put on by Project Censored, on Saturday [April 28], at San Francisco State University. I was told, by the way, that my presence had been a cause of much controversy: one of the keynote speakers, the well-known...

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Is Bob Kerrey a War Criminal?

Former Senator Bob Kerrey (D-Nebraska) was a presidential hopeful and a rising star in the Democratic party when, for some reason, this January he suddenly decided to drop out of politics. At the time, his decision puzzled his friends and supporters: now, they know...

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Hail Koizumi!

"The earth is shaking" – this is how Junichero Koizumi, the man almost certain to be the new Prime Minister of Japan, described his apparent triumph over the old party bosses who have dominated the country since the end of World War II. And not only the earth,...

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